LESSON PLAN (Listening) Subject Day/Date Form Time Theme Topic Previous Knowledge Moral Values Pedagogical Strategies

: English Language : Thursday, 14th September 2006 : Form 2B (35 students) Low to Average : 8.20 a.m. 9.40 a.m. (80 minutes) : Health : Food for Thought : Students have read and learnt about the food guide pyramid. : Value ones life, Eat moderately : Multiple Intelligences (Verbal Linguistic, Interpersonal Skills, Bodily Kinaesthetic, Visual Spatial) Constructivism Thinking Skills (Analysing, Generating Ideas, Recalling) : The Internet : Appendix 1 - Pictures of people suffering from malnutrition and a cartoon of an obese person Appendix 2 - A picture of the food guide pyramid Appendix 3 - Listening Text Appendix 4 - Task Sheet 1

References Teaching Aids

Learning Outcomes: 1.0 Language for Interpersonal Use 1.1 Make friends and keep friendships by a) d) taking part in conversations and discussions exchanging ideas, information and opinions on topics of interest iii) Responding to questions politely by giving the required information.

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Language for Informational Use 2.1 Obtain information for different purposes by a) listening to spoken texts such as talks, speeches, i) Listening to and understanding a variety of texts...

Objective(s): By the end of the lesson, students should be able to: 1. 2. answer correctly at least 8 out of the 10 True/False questions in the listening exercise. identify at least 1 food class by drawing the food pyramid.

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Skills Pedagogical Strategies

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Set Induction (8 mins) 1. Tr shows Ss pictures of people suffering from malnutrition and a cartoon of a person suffering from obesity (Appendix 1). Tr asks Ss how they feel after seeing those pictures. Tr explains the meanings of malnutrition and obesity respectively. Note: i) Malnutrition means a poor condition of health caused by a lack of food or a lack of the right type of food. L S MI (Verbal Linguistic, Interpersonal Skills) AVA: Pictures of people suffering from malnutrition and a cartoon of a person suffering from obesity (Appendix 1)

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ii) Obese means very fat, in a way that is not healthy. 4. Tr asks Ss to think of the film Nutty Professor.

Pre-listening (20 mins) 1. Tr generates a discussion on the causes of malnutrition and obesity. 2. Tr shows Ss a picture of the food guide pyramid (Appendix 2). 3. Tr explains what a food guide pyramid is. 4. Tr asks Ss what information they can gather from the food guide pyramid. 5. Ss identify the food classes. S L MI (Verbal Linguistic, Interpersonal Skills)
Constructivism

AVA: A picture of the food guide pyramid (Appendix 2) Moral Values: Value ones life, Eat moderately

TS (Analysing, Generating Ideas)

Note: Basically, there are 3 main classes. They are carbohydrate, fat and protein. The Food Guide Pyramid is one way for people to understand how to eat healthily. A balanced diet is one that includes all the food groups. In other words, have foods from every color, every day.

While-listening (32 mins) 1. 2. 3. 4. Tr distributes Task Sheet 1 to Ss (Appendix 4). Ss read the task sheets. Tr explains how the exercises should be done. Tr reads the dialogue once to Ss (Appendix 3). L S R W MI (Verbal Linguistic, Interpersonal Skills)

AVA: Task Sheet 1 (Appendix 4) Dialogue (Appendix 3)

5. Ss listen and complete the task sheets as they listen to the dialogue the second time.

Post- listening (15 mins) 1. Tr goes through the answers with Ss. 2. Tr reads the relevant parts of the dialogue to Ss if they make mistakes with any of the questions. 3. Tr divides Ss into groups of 7. 4. Tr distributes mahjong paper to each group. 5. Each group draws the food pyramid on the mahjong paper, and then, labels it. R L S MI (Verbal Linguistic, Interpersonal Skills, Visual Spatial, Bodily Kinaesthetic )

AVA: Mahjong paper, Markers

6. The group that is able to finish the task first and label all correctly is the winner.

Closure (5 mins) 1. 2. Ss display what they have done. Ss recap what they have learnt in todays lesson. L S MI (Verbal Linguistic, Bodily Kinaesthetic, Interpersonal Skills) TS (Recalling)